A Note for Tonight: The Phillies are going for three in a row against the first place Milwaukee Brewers. They’ll face former Phillie Kyle Lohse. The Brewers are 13-5 in games that Lohse has started this season.

Fear not Lefty – I have returned from the dead. and “yes, I agree” to whatever I missed in these last however many threads. A 10 minute rain, one boom and my home (along with 350 others) were without electricity for 36 hours.
I.N.F.R.A.S.T.R.U.C.T.U.R.E.

Since Revere doesn’t have the arm for left, right or center I think they should open up the position of short field for him – you know, like in softball. In case the the oppsing manager or the occasional observant umpire notices 10 men on the field, the Phils could always drop the 1st base position since it doesn’t help them much, anyway.
Just a thought.

I see that the Brewers put a blue glove on tge back of the pitching mound. That’s kind of cool, but I noticed that the Angels put ” Vote GRIch ” on theirs. I don’t like that very much. Anyone have thoughts on that? Shmenk, hogey, bacardi, Andrew or Tracey,anyone else?

I’m for Bobby Grich for the Hall of Fame. One of the most deserving of those not already in. Underrated in his day because he did many things well while not wowing in any one. But when you add it all up, overall he was extremely valuable, as shows by WAR.

Between having no power or communication and my son picking a less than great time to be on “vacation” in Israel it’s been a tough week here.

Yesterday, he was in an outdoor latrine somewhere south of Tel Aviv when missile warning sirens went off. He literally hopped out (you have about 15-30 seconds to find shelter) just in time to see a missile dropping directly over his head. At about 2,000 feet an Iron Dome missile intercepted it.

Enough to make a guy constipated – and give his father the you know whats.
Anyway, baseball is a wonderful relief.

Yeah, I agree with that. Our old guys are certainly not as good as they were in their prime. But the young guys we have aren’t playing any better than them (not even playing as well as them), so it’s absurd to blame the Phillies’ problems on their age.

Yes, and in fairness that seems to have been the attitude of a lot of Phillies fans. If you look back at the comments I was writing in this blog as far back as 2010, I always insisted that we needed to get and train new talent and look to the future instead of buying up the All-Stars of yesterday. A lot of people berated me, saying that we needed to worry about winning now. Sadly, we now reap the consequences of that mentality.